Read the well-circulated New Yorker article by Ken Auletta. A short summary:Ken Auletta profiles McKinsey alum Sheryl Sandberg, now chief operating officer of Facebook. A former student of Lawrence Summers at Harvard, she also worked with him at the Department of Treasury, and before she joined Facebook, she was vice president for global online sales and operations at Google, where she helped create the young company's success in advertising.(Thanks Tom, David, and Claire)
The profile highlights Sandberg's efforts to increase the numbers of women in corporate leadership roles, including a widely viewed and controversial presentation she gave at the TEDWomen conference, in which she delivered what Auletta describes as her "post-feminist message."
Also discussed are Sandberg's success in making Facebook profitable; tensions between her and Google, from which she has hired many employees; Facebook's ambitions to enter China; and the prospect of a Facebook IPO, which Sandberg describes as inevitable.
